Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fascinated gaze of political observers was a cloud on the political horizon no bigger than the hand of little Jacob Arvey, Illinois Democratic boss. Appearing on a TV program with Douglas, Arvey dutifully stated that the Illinois delegation at the National Convention would support Mr. Truman if he chose to run. If not, said Arvey, "there are a great many people who . . . look on Senator Douglas as a presidential candidate." When Douglas once more disavowed any such ambitions, Arvey mentioned his liking for Ike Eisenhower, whom Arvey backed for a while in 1948 when he, like many of the Democratic...
...negotiator. Snapped he: "They can shoot their wives, they can divorce them, but when anyone works for me I want him where I want him when I want him, and if he doesn't like it he can work for someone else." The union's office employees chose another course: they organized a union and appealed to NLRB...
...weather of the two weeks preceding the June 23 event had been about as perfect as anyone could ask. Even the famed English fogs and mists barely showed. Yet the weatherman chose to doublecross the meet directors, causing the expected shirt sleeves to be replaced by top coats as spectator apparel as the mercury dropped...
...yesterday, is that they were offered by H. U. E. R. A. president Daniel G. Mulvihill a choice between either a 40-hour week with no change in total weekly pay, or a five percent raise with the same schedule of 40 hours one week, 44 the next. They chose the first in a vote held late last week...
...Tone? Malik chose an innocuous U.N. radio program as his platform, delivered a 14-minute speech which promised to start off like most of his past blasts at the West. But this time, there were some differences in tone...